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Shat the Movies: 80's & 90's Best Film Review

Airheads (1994)

Shat the Movies: 80's & 90's Best Film Review

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Film Reviews, 80s, Shermerhighschool, Sixteencandles, Movies, Tv & Film, Weirdscience, Breakfastclub, Vcr, Johnhughes, Vhs, 90s, Classicmovies

4.6 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

This week, Shat The Movies cranks the amps, loads the water guns and storms the radio station for 1994’s Airheads. Commissioned by listener John W., this forgotten rock comedy captures a moment when being a long-haired metalhead still meant something—and when you had to physically take hostages just to get your demo played.

Gene and Big D relive the glory days of Blockbuster soundtracks and flannel rebellion while asking: was Airheads secretly a Gen X prophecy about streaming, soulless algorithms and the death of radio or just a juvenile comedy where Brendan Fraser, Steve Buscemi, and Adam Sandler somehow make the dumbest idea ever seem kind of badass?

Along the way, the hosts debate Brendan Fraser’s heartthrob era, Steve Buscemi’s brief flirtation with “normal guy energy” and why physical media might be the only thing keeping our culture alive. They also accidentally invent the world’s first militant anti-Spotify movement.

Is Airheads an under-appreciated anthem for the lost rock generation—or proof that metalheads should never be trusted with firearms, fake or not? Crank it up and find out.

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0:00.0

Hello, everybody out there in Chatland. This is the exhausted father to a newborn. Gene Lyons here

0:07.4

with a bit of a note about this episode. So many of you have written in on Facebook, on Discord, on

0:15.4

Instagram, to ask, what happened to Airheads? Did I miss the airheads episode? Did you guys decide not to do

0:22.1

airheads? And the truth is much more mundane. Big D in his wisdom let me know that once the baby

0:29.6

was born, I'd be strapped for time, strapped for sleep, and should probably bank a few episodes

0:34.7

in advance. So we did. But then the aforementioned sleep deprivation kicked

0:39.8

in. There's a bit of a mix-up, and we fell out a sequence with our edits. So you got Dungeons

0:45.9

and Dragons first, and now you get airheads. We appreciate your understanding and continued support.

0:53.3

Enjoy the show.

0:57.6

Remember when we first met John McLean?

1:00.3

Our God picked him up from the plane and took him down the Nacotomi Tower

1:03.0

at the Christmas party.

1:05.8

And the terrorists were overzealous,

1:07.9

but it was sweet when they killed Ellis.

1:12.6

And with a little help from Allen john mclean kid dies welcome back to chat the movies the podcast where we

1:17.8

answered the question for the movies we love and we were growing up really that good you've ever

1:22.2

caught yourself thinking why don't they make movies like they used to can you still

1:25.6

remember spending your Friday night searching for the perfect movie rental blockbuster video? Do you know what Blockbuster video is? If you answered yes, then this is the podcast for you. I am one of your hosts, Gene Lyons, and alongside me as my co-host, Big D, Dick Ebert. Good evening. And each week, we take a look back in time, decided if our favorite films still hold up. The movies we cover are chosen by you, the listeners, who generously commissioned the films you love. If you like to see all the movies we have covered, we'll cover, want to choose one for yourself. Please visit chatpod.com and have a look. At the end of each podcast, we'll provide you the audience with a number of wipes each movie take to get off your respective butts. So thank you so much for listening. If you have not already hit that subscribe button and share with a friend, it's how we help the podcast grow. Additionally, subscribe to our sister podcast, chat on TV, where we've had a TV series such as Westworld, Taboo, American Gods, Game of Thrones, true detective, lovecraft country, and watchmen find all the information at past episodes at chatpod

2:18.3

dot com slash tv and finally to hang out with this live follow and subscribe to our twitch channel

2:23.2

chatpod dot com slash twitch and our youtube channel where we play video games host watch parties

2:28.1

and edit this podcast live all that being said big d what movie we're reviewing tonight

2:33.7

jean and dear listeners tonight i'm really excited uh you know our All that being said, Big D, what movie reviewing tonight?

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